XCIX.

Ah, Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits--and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!

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This quatrain is translated from C. 395.

Had I, like God, control of the heavens, Would I not do away with the heavens altogether, Would I not so construct another heaven from the beginning That, being free, one might attain to the heart's desire?

_Ref._: C. 395, L. 594, B. 587, S.P. 337, P. 98, B. ii, 450, T. 268.--W. 379, N. 340, V. 641.